Brainfeeder

Signed to Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, Matthewdavid is one of the upcoming beatmakers that I’ve been paying attention to as of recent, and about a week ago, he released an eclectic new album called “In My World.” Out of the tracks from the album, the self-titled track caught my ear …

via Brainfeeder: “Sun Ra once spoke a future where the mere thought of a place would take somebody there. In the past future of today, Ras G explores space and time through his ancient/futuristic music. Dusty, ethereal and bugged out, the Crate Creator’s beats bring the past to the future. …

I’m pretty psyched about this video dig because I actually discovered it through one of our readers. I love when that happens cause people have a tendency of thinking that just cause we write about music that we’re music experts who literally live with our heads in crates when in …

I was brushing up on recent hiphop releases and wasn’t finding too much to get excited about and then the opening melody of this track came in and my ears perked up. Only a few bars into it I recognized the beat as the outro to Flying Lotus‘ outstanding collaboration …

Stephen Burner aka Thundercat is such an impressive musician and also to my surprise, he was in the live band of Erykah Badu at Rock The Bells which I had the chance to catch last week. I’m so small I couldn’t see anything during their soundcheck. I had to jump …

Just a few months into his move from 1xtra to BBC Radio 1, Benji B is stepping it up in a major way. Last week his guest was J Rocc and now comes this absolutely nuts show. Flying Lotus and the Brainfeeder take over the studio and deliver 2 hours …

New weirdo-spacey dopeness from LA’s Flying Lotus. The track is called Disco Balls and is on the new anniversary compilation celebrating Hyperdub’s 5 years in the game. For those who don’t know Hyperdub is one of the most influencial UK labels to come out in recent years. Focusing on dubstep, …

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Forgotten Treasures

Soundway Records present a new compilation of twenty rare and mostly unavailable tracks from the slick and sassy world of Nigerian pop music and club culture of the early 1980s. Buoyed by an explosive oil boom and a return to democracy after a series of military dictatorships, Nigeria’s economy in …

Future Classics

Sometimes a record finds you. I was at a Charles Bradley concert perusing a crudely set up merch table when the LP caught my eye. Its cover featured the word “Cuzco”, and the Peruvian police uniform I had learned to recognize in my many months spent in Peru. On the …

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I know, i’ve been saying it a lot these last few months. I wish I could get back on my regular monthly schedule with the MIMS Show but i’ve been struggling to keep up. But i’m trying! Hopefully two hours and 40 hand-picked gems make up for it! As always …